Abstract
How externally acquired resources may become valuable, rare, hard-to-imitate, and non-substitute resource bundles through the development of dynamic capabilities? This study proposes and tests a mediation model of how firms’ internal technological diversification and R&D, as two distinctive microfoundations of dynamic technological capabilities, mediate the relationship between external technology breadth and firms’ technological innovation performance, based on the resource-based view and dynamic capability view. Using a sample of listed Chinese licensee firms, we find that firms must broadly explore external technologies to ignite the dynamism in internal technological diversity and in-house R&D, which play their crucial roles differently to transform and reconfigure firms’ technological resources.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Asia Pacific Journal of Management |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 4 |
Number of pages | 28 |
ISSN | 0217-4561 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Resource-based view
- Dynamic capabilities
- Technological diversification
- In-house R&D
- Patent licensing
- Technological innovation